Windows Phone 8.1 is said to be one of the biggest updates ever to arrive on Microsoft’s mobile platform, with a huge list of rumored features, and now, we are seeing what’s said to be the first and only ‘real’ Windows Phone 8.1 screenshot. The blurry image coming from TheVerge’s Tom Warren Twitter account shows the settings for the upcoming ‘Notification Center’ in Windows Phone, a feature that is expected to mimic Android’s notification dropdown and store all your unread notifications. It's an image previously posted by Windows-focused site WMPowerUser, but now it gets endorsed by Microsoft insider Warren as the 'only real' WP8.1 picture.

You can see 4 toggles that will allegedly show in this new ‘Notification Center’ - a GPS, brightness, Wi-Fi and Flight mode ones. You can also select notifications from which exact apps to appear in the new notifications hub, and we are seeing the option to turn on and off at least email and messaging. A murky new feature inside the notifications hub is ‘banners’ that you can choose to show or not. Moreover, we are seeing that receiving notifications in this central hub will not disable live tile notifications. Interestingly, rumor has it that notifications in the new version of Windows Phone will be actionable, so you could respond to them right in that 'Notification Center'.

Given that this comes from a source with a good track record, we can be fairly certain in the authenticity of the screenshot. A Windows Phone ‘Notification Center’ has been a feature sorely missing on a platform where you have to hunt down missed notifications, so it’s definitely welcome.

Even earlier, though, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, rumor is that Nokia will unveil the first devices to run on WP8.1, and one of them is said to come with a 1440 x 2560-pixel (QHD) display, an interesting rumor given that Windows Phone currently supports 1080p screens at maximum.

10.papss (unregistered)

Like i said above...dont play this copying game its pointless...you will lose every time because its often the smaller companies which get the good ideas then the big ones which buy them out and pretended they invented there ideas...

Did I say anything that goes against comment 6? I'm simply daring you to use your "copy" comment to reply to him, but you fail to do so, proving that you're not man enough. So? You start on the non-Android fans. Typical. Even many Android fans are hating on you.

LOL, so many Nokia fanboys...your all in denial thinking Nokia or WP invented everything new...its simply not true...you all can simply not appreciate the fact that the copying game is pointless...lets be real over the past 10 years google has innovated more than microsoft or nokia...

You love being humiliated don't you? Who said anything about WP or Nokia inventing anything? How can an operating system copy something? And like I said, why don't you reply the "copy" comment to comment 6? Aren't you a man to do that?

And again, you are changing topics as usual, because you know you can never fight back.

you rely can't read can you..."Zuckerboy's comment was true...if WP have included a Notification centre then it is clearly taking design cues from all previous OSes before it...including plm, iOS, android and all other OSes" and your comment of..."How can an operating system copy something?"...is ridiculous...becasue i vaguely remember you on the iOS 7 article saying they had copied android and wp...please stop because I'm getting tired of listening to endless nokia drivel

I can read. I can type. You can't read or type, just look at your responses that do not actually respond to comments, like your comment here! I have not said anything about IOS copying anything, companies copy, not operating systems.

You started it, you get tired of listening to "enless nokia drivel". Don't expect other users to stop the shit you've started. You want this stopped because you can't defend yourself. Pull out your white flag if you want to end humiliation.

40.papss (unregistered)

Leave this wp8 article then.. Its pretty simple to comprehend that Nokia/wp fans are going to post when the subject is about said platform..
first mention of "copy" was from zucker but you chose to by pass that comment for the defense comment.

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